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History 2020 Final Test Flashcards

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3 events that left the US into the war:

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  1. The German U boat
  2. The sinking of the Lusitania
  3. The Zimmerman telegram
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The Zimmerman telegram

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From germany»>Mexicans

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The great migration

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A new labor force for factories and mills in the north

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The Spanish flu

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Over 7 times the number of Americans killed in combat in WWI

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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A symbol of the nativism of the 1920s. Italian immigrants, convicts, executed

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KKK

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Anti Protestant (what they weren’t)

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Scopes monkey trial

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Fundamentalist religion and science(evolution)

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Prosecution

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William Jennings Bryan

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Prohibition

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18th amendment- speakeasies, bootleggers, gangsters

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Flappers?

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Smoke, makeup, drink, dance

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Harlem Renaissance

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The nations first self conscious black literary and artistic movement

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NAACP

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Focused on legal action

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Consumer culture convinced us to

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Spend money on things we desire rather than things we need

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Features of a consumer culture

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  1. Advertisements
  2. Installment buying
  3. Consumer goods
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Most significant transportation

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Automobiles

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Lifestyle changes the car brought

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  1. Ppl could live farther away
  2. Thousands of new jobs
  3. Dating habits changed
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Buying stock “on margin”

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Ppl only paid 10% or 20% down on the shares they bought

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The bonus expeditionary force

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A large gathering unemployed WWI veterans. They asked for an early payment of their pensions

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The civilian conservation corps(ccc)

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Provided jobs for unmarried young men

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Federal deposit insurance corporation

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Insurance on deposits in bank

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The agricultural adjustment act

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Reduce production

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The Tennessee valley authority (TVA)

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Electrical power, flood control, soil conservation

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The dust bowl

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Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, and Oklahoma

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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She lent her efforts to help women, blacks, and young people

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Works progress administration

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Theater, art, music, writers

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The social security act

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Pension fund for retired people over 65 years old

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What started the First World War?

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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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